Consciousness
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon moral decision, and/or that any power of consciousness is illusory and he only felt as though he consc ...
American philosopher Owen Flanagan uses this argument and takes it one step further to claim confidently that consciousness has ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon creature becomes especially intelligent. There is, however, nothing it is like to be this creature, or ...
Chapter Eleven The function of consciousness you can remove health while leaving all the bodily powers and functions intact. In ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon FoUR WAYs oF tHInKInG ABoUt tHe eVoLUtIon oF ConsCIoUsness 1 Conscious inessentialism (epiphenomenalis ...
new. the important question is, ‘What is the function of consciousness?’, or ‘What does consciousness do?’ 3 Consciousness has n ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon ACtIVItY 11.1 The sentience line Is a stone conscious? Is a rose bush? Is a tadpole or a sheep? Is a b ...
Deeply troubled he spoke to his own great-hearted spirit: ‘Ah me! If I go now inside the wall and the gateway, Poulydamas will b ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon PRoFILe 11.1 Nicholas Humphrey (b. 1943) As a PhD student in Cam- bridge, Nicholas Humphrey discovered ...
Chapter Eleven The function of consciousness Another set of theories also gives consciousness its own survival value, but for so ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon This is what we humans do, argues Humphrey, quoting from Descartes’ contem- porary Thomas Hobbes, who s ...
introspection about their tool-making or for- aging, but with increasing cognitive fluidity the doors between the chapels opened ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon that their visual field is filled with uniformly detailed information’, or persuading them that they un ...
NO INDEPENDENT FUNCTION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS An alternative approach is to deny consciousness a separate function of its own and as ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon This, Humphrey argues, is how sensations came about. The response circuits were then privatised and int ...
We have already met one version of this in Dennett’s zimbo (Chapter 2). The zimbo is a self-monitoring zombie, and because it ca ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon a brain error, but a useful and efficient adaptation: con- sciousness has adaptive functions (both biol ...
Chapter Eleven The function of consciousness Finally, there is the novel process of ‘re-entry’, a dynamic process in which selec ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon rules like driving on the left (or the right), and habits like eating with chop- sticks (or a knife and ...
Chapter Eleven The function of consciousness Selfplex. A memeplex which is formed when people use language that includes referen ...
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